Psychiatry clinic is for specialized psychiatric, mental health conditions and disorders. It has services for Geriatric, General Adult Psychiatric and mental health issues, Child and Adolescent conditions. Services involve both psychological and pharmacological approach and management as outpatient and inpatient setting.
Services that deliver in this specialized clinic include management of approximately most common mental and psychological disorders according to age group including:
- Depression
- Anxiety and stress disorders
- Panic disorder
- Phobias
- Schizophrenia
- Bipolar disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Substance misuse or dependence
- Sexual disorders
- Sleep disorders
- Dementia
- Childhood depression
- Delay language
- Autism spectrum Disorders
- Conduct disorder
- Learning disorders
- ADHD, enuresis
- Encopresis mental retardation
- Tic disorders
All the above mentioned conditions can be managed either as outpatient. Patients can be admitted to the FMC as inpatients for selected cases that need hospital admission.
In this clinic a specialist is seeing patients and cases according to previously organised schedule and is doing proper assessment, request for them essential investigations to give the most probable provisional diagnosis. Then a plan of management is set, which includes psychoeducation, psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy if needed and follow up.